I'll tell you what, on top of all the recent privileges, Saudi woman have always had the benefit of the doubt, 10 fold!
All you have to do is point a finger and say "him" and if for some reason someone in the crowd doesn't like the way the dude looks....he's gonna get it, whether it be a punch or an escort out if the premise, won't matter if he did it or not, he'll get it.
Honestly back in the early to mid 2000's, people died in aims to protect a damsel in distress.
But back to your main question, woman have it soo good these days, it never sucked more to be a man, back when I was teenager I had to beg to get into the food court section of malls and even then all the security guards would be eyeballing me everywhere I go, One time I got escorted out, even though I just stepped away from my parents table to get more chili sauce...
As a dude if you go to the dessert or somewhere by the seaside you'd get the police eyeballing you, or some old dude cussing at you for being a menace to society, and all we did was laugh out loud...( far away from any family or sidewalk, but still...)
Recently, in 2018 I was walking to a store and then a cruising car slows besides me, as soon and as look at it, I see two girls with one of them vaping in their GMC Yukon, and they just gave me this dirty staredown, like "we driving and you walking" kind of look and then they just laughed and took off.
Heck, back when I was a kid playing in the jungle gym at Mcdonald's, this girl ran a corner and hit me, we both fell, a few mins later she brings her brother to our family table, and she punches me, right their in front of my family, and the rest of her family were at her table eyeballing me, as if I deliberately hit their daughter...
In Kindergarten, one girl bought candy and didn't give me any, that same week "I" bought a kinder egg dispenser, and I gave everyone a mini kinder egg, except her, during break time she convinced all the entire class to fight me, the very same people I gave candy to; I reported her to teacher just close by, the teacher did not believe me!!
I am not making this up!!
Lastly, during early teens, I reported some girls for spanking me, I got laughed out of the security office, had I or any other boy done the same, they would've held us until the police arrived then be taken to a station and call both parties' parents and it would if been a huge deal!
So here I am a victim of female abuse in the kingdom reporting in, woman have always had it good here, the media just likes to tarnish/slander some tribal/family issues into a country wide offence.
But seriously, find yourself a decent girl and ask her, she'd know best and her experience will shed some light.
Just don't believe her if she's type of person that jumbles up Arabic and English in her sentences, those are the worst.